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He who saves a man against his will as good as murders him.
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He has gained every point who has mixed profit with pleasure, by delighting the reader at the same time as instructing him.
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Tiresome, complaining, a praiser of past times, when he was a boy, a castigator and censor of the young generation.
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If you wish me to weep, you yourself
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I am displeased when sometimes even the worthy Homer nods.
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Works of serious purpose and grand promises often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide.
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He always hurries to the main event and whisks his audience into the middle of things as though they knew already.
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
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